Charleston, W.V.
House Bill 5105 first removed the vaccine requirements for students participating in virtual public schools, then extended to private schools to allow their policies to adopt their policies and then opened to parents, citing religious reasons for getting out of vaccination requirements in any school in the state.
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The bill is currently under the capture of the Senate Health Committee. Health leaders across the state are commenting on the bill.
Chancellor of the University of West Virginia and Executive Dean for Health Sciences Dr. Clay Marsh said that vaccines have been proved to improve the quality of life and health results for more than 100 years.
“Worldwide Polio recently impressed around 500,000 people as 1980,” Marsh said on the Metronws “Talkline” last week. “Now, this is nothing internationally and in the United States, and smallpox has been erased due to vaccination.”
Bill Kirns, director of the Health Department of Berkeley and Morgan County, said that obtaining proper vaccines is about keeping children safe.
“Vaccination is an important part of our children. You immunize them that the whole time has killed people, ”Kirns said during an appearance on Panhandal News Network recently.
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Disease Control and Prevention Centers currently report 35 measles cases in 35 states, mostly Pennsylvania and Florida. Pennsylvania reported nine cases, eight of them in Philadelphia, and in Florida, where there are eight cases, State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo “the most infectious human pathogen they know” and compared it to a rocket compared to a heat, which is capable of finding unwanted.
“When we currently look at Pennsylvania and we look at Florida, we are looking at measles outbreaks, which is a highly contagious disease that is not originally in vaccinated children.” Marsh said.
A report by the World Health Organization estimates that around 128,000 people died in 2021, and many more complications faced complications such as inflammation of brain, pneumonia and encephalitis.
“In 2019, there were about 1,300 measles cases in our country, and 90 percent of the people who were infected in our country in 2019 were not vaccinated,” Marsh said.
Vaccine requirements called officers “community immunity”. When enough people in a community receive vaccination, the disease and disease do not have access to free from person-to-person, causing the infection rate to be kept as low as possible.
Marsh said, “We are really trying to protect our children and our population the weakest people and who try to save the complications,” Marsh said.
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Bill Sponsor, Delegate Laura Kimble, R-Herison said, “On Monday before the house vote, arguments against exceptions for the belief that” the immune of the herd is important, important, is actually, the state of West Virginia must use the force of the law so that parents can be forced to parents without exceptions or exemption. “
He continued, “Most of the children’s vaccination, the reason declared for public safety, which can only be obtained by herd immunity, is dissatisfied, irresistible and ultimately contrast that we claim to be the most important.”
West Virginia has the highest vaccination rate for children, Kirns said that he cannot understand why the legalists are interested in going in the other direction.
“West Virginia does this right. Other states see more and want to model their behavior after West Virginia, ”he said. “With this, we are going to one of the weakest one of the strongest states when it comes to vaccination.”
Kirns are urging the residents of how their representatives in Charleston have voted on the issue.
“You can see on roll calls and see how your representative voted,” Kirns said. “Then you can say,” Okay, perhaps that representative did not care about my child’s health, “Maybe he had done, perhaps he had other reasons why he voted. This is a medical issue and we want to protect our children.”
The 60-day legislative session is scheduled to end at midnight on Saturday night.
Panhandal News Network Reporter Marasa Kawlek contributed to this story.